Sailing - SOLD

  Oh My Goodness - I loved painting these two.  The photo was a black and white so I was able to create a palette based on harmonious colors.  What a sweet moment captured between two siblings.

Two Little Angels Sitting By the Water - SOLD

I have been working hard on a couple of commissions and completing some inventory for the upcoming Jerry Brown Art Festival in Hamilton, Alabama.  Today I painted this little painting with a palette knife.  There are times when a palette knife will just work better for the painting I have in my head.  

Your Sister I Will Always Be - SOLD

The love between siblings is so deep.  I read a quote on Pinterest recently that said, "Here's to you, here's to me, big and little we'll always be."  We moved around a lot when my children were growing up and the one thing they could always count on being a constant was each other.  Today they are all grown up and some of them have kids of their own but I still see them as these two cute little girls.   I am very thankful that they still know they can always count on each other.

I'm Your Some Bunny - SOLD

Every body wants to be someone's somebody or bunny.

I Got You - SOLD

It is nice to know someone has "got you" regardless of what is ahead.

True Colors - SOLD

There is a lady in our church who is so transparent, so "real", so honest.  She tells her story of mistakes and then reconciliation with God and it is so inspiring.  For one thing she is brave, she knows she is loved and forgiven and she really does not care what anyone else thinks.  The other part of the story is that the small church congregation loves her, accepts her and holds her story in their hearts and not in their gossip.  

Those are true colors to me.

Wake Up to Hope - SOLD

14" x 14" acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas

I spent the most wonderful lunch with an old friend yesterday, our lives crossed over 16 years ago and as life does sometimes, circumstances - some good, some not so good brought us back together.  I am always amazed when this happens, especially when it just feels "right" and "good" to share our learned life lessons over a bowl of soup.  This morning I had that visit on my mind when I glanced up on my wall and saw a painting entitled, "Wake up to Hope" something we had talked about yesterday.  The fact that we were much more hopeful and compassionate in these years of our lives after living through some "things".  Hope, love and the fact that we cannot make something "ok" for another person.  We have both grown and changed and become different over the years.  Maybe being gracefully broken has not been all in vain as we both feel we are becoming more of the people we were meant to be.  Thank God people can grow and change and move closer and closer to freedom and being "real".   I grabbed that painting off the wall and completely redid it and just felt it was now representing it's name...........

P.S.  I love you Martha!!

You Are Loved - Sold

16" x 20" acrylic on stretched canvas

I am in a Bible study where I read this passage last week:  Luke 9:51-56 (The Message)

When it came close to the time for his Ascension he gathered up his courage and steeled himself for the journey to Jerusalem.  He sent messengers on ahead.  They came to a Samaritan village to make arrangements for his hospitality.  But when the Samaritans learned that his destination was Jerusalem, they refused hospitality. When the disciples James and John learned of it, they said, "Master, do you want us to call a bolt of lightning down out of the sky and incinerate them?"

The study is about John and I could not help but laugh that the disciple who called himself "the one that Jesus loved" was also a hot head.  He gives me hope.

At Valentine's and always, "you are loved".